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Posts tagged with 'racism' at Fanfare.Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:35:46 -0800Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:35:46 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Atlanta: Money Bag Shawtyhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/11094/Atlanta%2DMoney%2DBag%2DShawty
Earn is out here making that money. Too bad he still look broke as hell. This whole city runs on stunting, you feel me? [Official synopsis] / Along with earning social media attention, Paper Boi's newest single goes Gold, so Earn decides to take Van out for a night on the town to celebrate. Meanwhile, Alfred and Darius visit Clark County in the studio to record guest verses. [Clipped from Wikipedia summary] <a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/atlanta-review-money-bag-shawty.html"><em>Atlanta</em> Review: Mo' Money, Same Problems</a> (Jacob Oller for Paste Magazine)<br>
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<blockquote>Last week, <em>Atlanta</em> showed us what happens when you give a taste of cash to someone who isn’t ready for it and deny that taste to someone too thirsty for it. With “Money Bag Shawty,” the series suggests that money magnifies the essence of the person who has it: Earn (creator Donald Glover) has money, so of course the (often self-positioned) underdog is going to push his ego onto it.</blockquote><br>
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<a href="https://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.4029/title.atlanta-review-season-2-episode-3-money-bag-shawty">Atlanta Review: Season 2, Episode 3 — "Money Bag Shawty"</a> (Mike Jordan for Hip Hop DX)<br>
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<blockquote>Every major city has a vice that the rest of the world has at least heard about. In <em>Atlanta</em>, that vice is the strip club. Atlanta went in last night, and somehow we all came out a little smarter.<br>
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What makes “Money Bag Shawty” special is that it looks at all the ways black spending power is treated and tricked back into the system in Atlanta and cities like it. Tourists who’ve heard the songs and memorized the landmarks are ready to spend, along with regular locals who like feeling wealth and its illusion of self-worth, even if only for one night or weekend. And there are plenty of people willing to help Earn rid himself of the financial windfall he and Alfred received from their dealings with Fresh after last week’s “Sportin’ Waves” episode. But we see that even though money is supposed to be an equalizer, sometimes it’s still looked on with suspicion when the hand that passes it contains ratios of melanin higher than half.</blockquote><br>
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<a href="http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/atlanta-recap-season-2-episode-3-money-bag-shawty.html"><em>Atlanta Robbin’ Season</em> Recap: The Stunters and the Stunted</a> (Bryan Washington for Vulture)<br>
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<blockquote>Honestly, this entire recap could be all about Van. Partly because it’s her first appearance in <em>Robbin’ Season</em>, but partly because, Darius aside, she’s the show’s most enigmatic character. It’s not even close. Earn, we can wrap our heads around: He’s searching for himself in a new-old environment. Al’s situation as a dude coming to terms with his rapidly changing life is honed with every episode. But Van is loads more nebulous: She’s still with Earn, sort of, except for the times when she’s not. She’s raising a child mostly on her own [footnote: And this is generous.], although we don’t catch wind of the kid in “Money Bag Shawty.” She’s vaguely conscious of where she’d like to end up, which is a lot more than any of the show’s male characters can say, but she isn’t disillusioned by the fact that she may not find herself there, or that her current situation might be as good as it gets.</blockquote><br>
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<a href="https://www.tunefind.com/show/atlanta/season-2/57783">Songs heard in this episode</a>, as noted on TuneFindtag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2018:site.11094Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:35:46 -0800filthy light thiefFull Frontal with Samantha Bee: March 7, 2018http://fanfare.metafilter.com/11001/Full%2DFrontal%2Dwith%2DSamantha%2DBee%2DMarch%2D7%2D2018
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6yPZB9O2HU">Act 1: The NRA is a Cult</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omjeOt-U6w">Act 2: Alt-Right Killers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp4LUMl2994">Doug Bruce Ruined Colorado</a></li> I really enjoyed Mike Rubens just letting that "gassy conservative stay-puft marshmallow man looking mothe-" Bruce say all the hateful crap by himself without much prompting. Wow what a complete waste of a human.<br>
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The show took a month off between episodes 1 and 2 (this one) to film in Puerto Rico and that stuff will air on March 28thtag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2018:site.11001Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:17:52 -0800numanerLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: Nuclear Wastehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/9726/Last%2DWeek%2DTonight%2Dwith%2DJohn%2DOliver%2DNuclear%2DWaste
It's a little late, but here's LWT from 8/21:
<ul><li>Steve Bannon loses his (official) position as Chief Strategist in Trump's White House, but the White Nationalist In Chief remains, and made more horrible remarks about the protests in Charlottesville. Two business councils advising the White House disbanded following the news as CEOs abandoned the President.</li>
<li>And Now: Local News Answers The Question: "Should You Stare At The Sun?"</li>
<li>Main story: Nuclear waste, and the United States' long-standing problems in properly disposing of it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU">YouTube</a> (<small><b>18m</b></small>)</li>
<li>And Now: Some Of The Actual Responses From Potential Jurors Excused From The Martin Shkreli Trial (see inside for a list)</li></ul>
Last Week Tonight is off until September 10. Steve Bannon: "What would happen of Martin Sheen ate nothing beside sea salt for a thousand years?"<br>
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Horrible facts from the Nuclear Waste piece:<br>
Barrels of nuclear waste were dumped off the coast of New Jersey.<br>
Dealing with the Hanford Site, in Washington State, the "most polluted place in the Western Hemisphere," consumes 10% of the yearly budget of the Department of Energy.<br>
Nuclear waste is stored all across the country "on-site," even at reactors that are otherwise shut down, in many cases environmental disasters waiting to happen.<br>
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The video "Yucca Mountain: The Making of an Underground Laboratory" is available on YouTube in five parts: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0Mivu-ceE">1</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQtTDf1zTtU">2</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdExgt-N-M">3</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su9tRgEDL4g">4</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656vJSlMFps">5</a><br>
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The NBC News special "Danger: Radioactive Waste" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d_edy11XIM">is also on YouTube</a>. As it turns out, Last Week Tonight didn't even make it to covering everything horrible revealed in that 1977 program. Like: New Jersey was not the only place where barrels of nuclear waste were dumped.<br>
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The villain in the Yucca Mountain story is Harry Reid, callously saying that nuclear waste should be kept where it is, making this a time when the worst actor in a LWT piece turns out to have been a Democrat.<br>
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Responses from excused Martin Shkreli jurors:<br>
<ul><li>I am aware of the defendant and I hate him.<br>
</li><li>No. No. No. No. No.<br>
</li><li>By the time I came in and sat down and he turned around, I felt immediately I was biased.<br>
</li><li>He kind of looks like a dick.<br>
</li><li>When I walked in here today, I looked at him, and in my head, "That's a snake," not knowing who he was. I just walked in and looked right at him, and that's a snake.<br>
</li><li>I think he's a greedy little man.<br>
</li><li>You'd have to convince me he was innocent rather than guilty.<br>
</li><li>The only thing I'd be impartial about is what prison this guy goes to.<br>
</li><li>Is he stupid or greedy? I can't understand.<br>
</li><li>He disrespected the Wu-Tank Clan.</li></ul><br>
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F.37: "Comicus Iconicus," DICK GREGORYtag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2017:site.9726Sun, 27 Aug 2017 23:36:22 -0800JHarrisLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: North Koreahttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/9682/Last%2DWeek%2DTonight%2Dwith%2DJohn%2DOliver%2DNorth%2DKorea
<ul><li>Violence in Charlottesville, where a Neo-Nazi drove a car into a group of counter protesters, killing one and injuring several others, after which Donald Trump <i>refuses to admit that Nazis are bad</i>. Oliver: "David Duke and the Nazis really seem to like Donald Trump, which is weird because Nazis are a lot like cats. If they like you, it's probably because <i>you're feeding them</i>."
</li><li>AND NOW: HIGHLIGHTS FROM ROBOCUP 2017, first without, and then vastly improved by Univision Deportes Commentator Luis Omar Tapia.
</li><li>Main Story: North Korea, the most dangerous rogue nation in the world, and its leader Kim Jong Un, whom Donald Trump seems to be personally insulted by, resulting in a dangerous exchange a couple of weeks ago between the two thin-skinned madmen. Last Week Tonight put together a helpful package of information on the country, revealing such facts that the accordion is the country's national instrument, and that video of US television programming, most notably NCIS, is smuggled into North Korea on USB drives. At the end LWT presents a special number by "Weird Al" Yankovich asking North Korea not to nuke us. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrS0uNBuG9c">YouTube</a> (<small><b>27m</b></small>) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrS0uNBuG9c">Metafilter</a></li></ul> F.37 "E Pluribus Un," KIM JONG UNtag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2017:site.9682Sat, 19 Aug 2017 01:13:31 -0800JHarrisPodcast: Scene on Radio: That’s Not Us, So We’re Cleanhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/9143/Scene%2Don%2DRadio%2DThats%2DNot%2DUs%2DSo%2DWere%2DClean
When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. <a href="https://documentarystudies.duke.edu/people/john-biewen">John Biewen</a> speaks with some white Southern friends (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Gurganus">Allan Gurganus,</a> <a href="https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/shannon-sullivan/">Shannon Sullivan,</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Tyson">Timothy Tyson</a>) about that tendency. (This is part six of the “Seeing Whiteness” series, with recurring guest <a href="https://www.clemson.edu/cbshs/faculty-staff/profiles/kkumany">Chenjerai Kumanyika</a> showing up at the end to help keep John honest.)tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2017:site.9143Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:22:02 -0800Going To MaineBook: Stamped from the Beginninghttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/8906/Stamped%2Dfrom%2Dthe%2DBeginning
<em>Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.</em> Full title: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. <br>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898216-stamped-from-the-beginning">Stamped from the Beginning on Goodreads</a><br>
Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. <br>
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<a href="http://www.aaihs.org/opening-the-racist-closets-of-history-seven-well-meaning-americans/">Opening the Racist Closets of History: Seven Well-Meaning Americans</a> - an article by Ibram X. Kendi at <a href="aaihs.org">Black Perspectives</a>, which gives a good overview of the concepts Kendi covers in the book.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2017:site.8906Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:33:27 -0800soplerfoStar Trek: Deep Space Nine: Badda-Bing, Badda-Banghttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/8159/Star%2DTrek%2DDeep%2DSpace%2DNine%2DBadda%2DBing%2DBadda%2DBang%2DRewatch
Pretty much everything you need to know about the episode right here:
"Bashir, the drink-doctorer,
Nog, the safecracker,
Dax, the cocktail waitress,
Odo, the bag-man,
Kira, the decoy,
Sisko, the high-roller,
Yates, the victim,
and, of course, Vic.
(O'Brien, the falsely-accused patsy, is not present as he is being strip-searched)" <a href="http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Badda-Bing%2C_Badda-Bang_(episode)">Memory Alpha</a> has your number, pally, and it's eight, not eleven: <br>
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- This episode was a pet project for Ira Steven Behr for some time; "I'd wanted to do a caper show for years, but I'd never been able to pull it off. It was now or never – and with Vic Fontaine and a holosuite version of Las Vegas within reach, all the elements seemed to be in place." <br>
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- The script borrows from (and parodies) the 1960 Lewis Milestone crooner's film,<em> Ocean's Eleven</em>, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and Angie Dickinson. This story, about a similarly convoluted casino heist/inside job, was remade forty-one years later by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García and Julia Roberts. <br>
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- Ira Behr had wanted Avery Brooks to sing on the show for some time, and after shooting this episode, Behr commented,<a href="https://youtu.be/B-Jq26BCwDs"> "It's just jaw-dropping how good he is."</a> (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Previously, Brooks had briefly sung in the episodes "Move Along Home", "Far Beyond the Stars" and "His Way".<br>
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- Of Benjamin Sisko's controversial racial commentary in this episode, Behr explains, "We didn't want the audience, especially the younger audience, to think that 1962 Las Vegas was a place where you had a lot of black people sitting in the audience at nightclubs, or enjoying themselves at hotels and casinos. That just didn't happen. So by having someone of Sisko's historical understanding questioning that fact, we could clarify before we got him to Vic's that he's well aware that Vegas was very, very, very white." <br>
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- By the time this episode aired, Behr was well aware that there had been something of a fan backlash against Vic Fontaine; some fans loved him, but others disliked the concept of the character. Behr specifically wrote Sisko's role to act as a surrogate for the fans who wouldn't accept Vic, with the idea being that if Sisko could be won over, then anyone could be won over. <br>
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- The Vic/Sisko duet at the end of the episode, "The Best Is Yet to Come", refers to the nine-part series finale. In the production order, the "Final Chapter" commenced right after "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" with "Penumbra."<br>
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- Robert O'Reilly (better known for his role as Gowron) portrays the replacement accountant. He was credited here as Bobby Reilly to help hide the fact that it was the same actor.<br>
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"We cannot ignore the truth about the past." <br>
"Going to Vic's won't make us forget who we are or where we came from. It reminds us that we are no longer bound by any limitations. Except the ones we impose on ourselves." <br>
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- Sisko and Kasidy, on historical accuracy<br>
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"So, where are you from again?"<br>
"Bajor."<br>
"That's in Jersey, right?"<br>
"Right."<br>
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- Tony Cicci and Odotag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2016:site.8159Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:40:28 -0800Halloween JackLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: School Segregationhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/8067/Last%2DWeek%2DTonight%2Dwith%2DJohn%2DOliver%2DSchool%2DSegregation
Week of 10/30:
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<li>Regrettably, more on the 2016 Election, putting aside a story on Pirate Party making progress in Iceland, among others, to make room for it. OH WELL:</li>
<li>The FBI finds a few Clinton emails in an investigation into <small>oh god I can't believe I'm typing this</small> Anthony Weiner, yes HIM again, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjiSm4ZPVKM">Carlos Danger</a> himself. Worth watching just for the footage of Biden reacting to the words "Anthony Weiner."</li>
<li>And Now: The Stream-Of-Consciousness Musings of WCBS-2 Meteorologist John Elliott</li>
<li>Main story: School segregation, and its surprising continued prevalence, not in the South, but in New York state. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yiYCHMAlM">YouTube</a> (<small><b>18m</b></small>)</li>
<li>How Is This Still A Thing: Voting On Tuesday (It turns out to have started because, in the 1800s, people were expected to be spending Monday travelling to the polling place to vote.) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0bMfS-_pjM">YouTube</a> (<small><b>4m</b></small>)</li>
</ul> 2016 Election: "The Shit-Filled Cornucopia That Just Keeps On Giving 2016"<br>
Racism: "The problem that 'Crash' failed to solve."<br>
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F. 37 Halloween: "Hocus Pocus"tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2016:site.8067Sun, 06 Nov 2016 12:03:24 -0800JHarrisStar Trek: Deep Space Nine: Far Beyond the Starshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/7500/Star%2DTrek%2DDeep%2DSpace%2DNine%2DFar%2DBeyond%2Dthe%2DStars%2DRewatch
And now for something really different: for the first time anywhere, an adaptation of a long-lost work by the tragic and underappreciated African-American SF author and Afrofuturist pioneer Benny Russell, a story considered so controversial at the time of its writing that it was completely suppressed by its publisher: "Deep Space Nine"! From the computerized fanzine "<a href="http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Far_Beyond_the_Stars_(episode)">Memory Alpha</a>" (and, believe me, there's lots more in this "cyber-encyclopedia"): <br>
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- According to an interview in Star Trek Monthly #40, the Incredible Tales staff were based on various real-life genre authors. For instance, Albert Macklin was intended as an homage to Isaac Asimov. Kay Eaton, who wrote under the name K.C. Hunter to hide her gender, was a version of Catherine Moore, who similarly wrote under the name C.L. Moore, as well as Star Trek's own <a href="http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/D.C._Fontana">D.C. Fontana</a> who wrote for The Original Series. Indeed, Albert's first novel was to be published by Gnome Press, as was Asimov's debut book in 1950 – a collection of short stories entitled I, Robot.<br>
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- Benny's character caused some fans to be reminded of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a>, an African American science fiction writer who actually started in the early 1960s, a few years after this episode would have been set. Delany was friends with most of the real life analogs of the writers in this story, most of whom are noted elsewhere for supporting the efforts of non-White writers. Delany has recalled that <a href="http://www.nyrsf.com/racism-and-science-fiction-.html">his 1967 novel Nova was rejected by Campbell</a> due to feeling that SF readers were not ready for a Black protagonist; identical to the reason that Benny's story was rejected by Pabst. Nova was ultimately published by Doubleday and received the 1968 Hugo award.<br>
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- The cover of the March 1953 edition of Incredible Tales shows the surface of Delta Vega from "Where No Man Has Gone Before". It also advertises such stories as "The Cage" (written by E.W. Roddenberry, who is also said to be the writer of "Questor"), "The Corbomite Maneuver", "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and "Journey to Babel" (written by D.C. Fontana).<br>
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- The producers also toyed with the idea of ending the series (in "What You Leave Behind") with a shot of Benny Russell sitting outside a television sound stage holding a script for "Deep Space Nine" – essentially making the series, and possibly the whole of Star Trek, either a dream or a prophecy from the Bajoran Prophets – but this idea was ultimately rejected. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Ironically, Herbert Rossoff (Quark) comments in this episode that making the whole story a dream would demean the entire story.<br>
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- Of the inherent theme of racism in the episode, Brooks comments, "If we had changed the people's clothes, this story could be about right now. What's insidious about racism is that it is unconscious. Even among these very bright and enlightened characters – a group that includes a woman writer who has to use a man's name to get her work published, and who is married to a brown man with a British accent in 1953 – it's perfectly reasonable to coexist with someone like Pabst. It's in the culture, it's the way people think. So that was the approach we took. I never talked about racism. I just showed how these intelligent people think, and it all came out of them." Armin Shimerman makes a similar comment about the dual existence of racism in the period of the episode and in society of today; "Star Trek at its best, deals with social issues, and though you could say, 'Well, that was prejudice in the fifties,' the truth of the matter is, here we are in the twenty-first century, and it's still there, and that's what we have to be reminded by, and that's what that episode does terrifically well."<br>
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"Call anybody you want, they can't do anything to me, not any more, and nor can any of you. I am a Human being, dammit! You can deny me all you want but you can't deny Ben Sisko – He exists! That future, that space station, all those people – they exist in here! (pointing to his head) In my mind. I created it. And everyone of you knew it, you read it. It's here. (pointing to his head again) Do you hear what I'm telling you? You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea, don't you understand, that's ancient knowledge, you cannot destroy an idea. (becoming hysterical) That future – I created it, and it's real! Don't you understand? It is real. I created it. And it's real! It's REAL! Oh God!" (he collapses, sobbing hysterically)<br>
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- Benny Russell (Benjamin Sisko)<br>
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"For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us."<br>
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- Benjamin Siskotag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2016:site.7500Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:25:26 -0800Halloween JackO.J.: Made in America: Part 2: Lack of Community Involvementhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/7223/OJ%2DMade%2Din%2DAmerica%2DPart%2D2%2DLack%2Dof%2DCommunity%2DInvolvement
There was never one Los Angeles, California. There were always two. One was the world inhabited by O.J. Simpson: wealthy, privileged, and predominantly white. A world where celebrity was power, and where O.J. - race be damned - was one of the most popular figures around, cultivating the perfect image, even if it hardly lined up with what lay beneath. Then there was the other LA, just a few miles away from Brentwood and his Rockingham estate, a place where millions of other black people lived an entirely different reality at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department. It was in that "other" Los Angeles where riots erupted in 1992, and more than 50 people died with thousands more injured. The city burned for nearly a week that spring, laying bare all the anger, and all the alienation, that black people in Los Angeles felt towards the police. For his part, back in Brentwood, O.J. Simpson had other concerns.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2016:site.7223Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:01:56 -0800Cash4LeadO.J.: Made in America: Part 1: U.S.C. Culturehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/7189/OJ%2DMade%2Din%2DAmerica%2DPart%2D1%2DUSC%2DCulture
To many observers, the story of the crime of the century is a story that began the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside her Brentwood condominium. But as the first episode of "O.J.: Made in America" lays bare, to truly grasp the significance of what happened not just that night, but the epic chronicle to follow, one has to travel back to points in time long before that. To generations prior, when African-Americans began migrating to California en masse, trying desperately - and fruitlessly - to outrun the racism that had defined their lives. To the late 1960s, when in the heart of Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson rose to instant fame as an unstoppable running back for the USC Trojans. To the early 1970's, when he expanded that fame in the NFL, becoming the first player ever to rush for 2,000 yards in a season, and emerging as one of the most visible faces in sports. And to a few years after that, when with his celebrity transcending the game, Simpson retired from football and returned to Los Angeles - his acting, advertising, and broadcasting careers in ascendance. It was also then that he fell madly in love - with a young, beautiful woman named Nicole Brown.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2016:site.7189Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:17:39 -0800Cash4LeadPodcast: StartUp Podcast: #19 Diversity Reporthttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/5459/StartUp%2DPodcast%2D19%2DDiversity%2DReport
If you were to walk into Gimlet HQ, there are a few things you'd probably notice right off the bat. First, it's crowded - like a grungy dorm room. Second, the lighting... it's not great. Not many windows. Third, it's white. Really white. 24 of Gimlet's 27 employees are white. In this episode, we look at diversity (or lack thereof) at Gimlet. And we try to figure out what diversity should mean for the company going forward.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.5459Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:06:09 -0800ZephyrialPodcast: Reply All: #46 Yik Yak Returnshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/5155/Reply%2DAll%2D46%2DYik%2DYak%2DReturns
Yik Yak is an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. Last year, Reply All did a story about how it brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism at Colgate University. In the second half, Reply All goes beyond Colgate and talks to Jamil Smith to try to understand Colgate in the context of recent campus protests.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.5155Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:33:02 -0800lunchLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: Over-expensive sports stadiumshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3921/Last%2DWeek%2DTonight%2Dwith%2DJohn%2DOliver%2DOver%2Dexpensive%2Dsports%2Dstadiums
This week.... Iran may be about to make a deal over their nuclear program. Greece may default on loans and possibly exit from the Euro currency. South Carolina finally lowers the Confederate battle flag flying over their state capitol. Last Week Tonight offers, to any team with an offensive mascot costume, to replace it with one of their previously-made mascot costumes. And Now: Whoopi Goldberg Defends Ten Surprising Things. Main story: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight">On lavish sports stations built using public money</a>. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs">YouTube</a> <small><b>19m</b></small>) John Oliver makes an impassioned sports speech to convince cities to make teams pay for their own stadiums. The list of things Whoopi Goldberg defended: Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Ray Rice, Chris Brown, Torture, Jesse James Cheating On Sandra Bullock, Her Decision to Appear in the in the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film, Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories, Mel Gibson, and Her Own Career Goals.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3921Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:30:17 -0800JHarrisLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment of Womenhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3749/Last%2DWeek%2DTonight%2Dwith%2DJohn%2DOliver%2DOnline%2DHarassment%2Dof%2DWomen
This week: Shootings in South Carolina. Russians plan "Patroit Park," a theme park for national military fans. The US $10 bill is being redesigned to include a woman's face. And Now: C-Span Callers Suggest Women For The $10 Bill. Main story: On the harassment of women on the internet. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNIwYsz7PI">YouTube (<small><b>17m</b></small>) Last Week Tonight remakes an old AOL ad.</a>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3749Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:33:34 -0800JHarrisMurder, She Wrote: Indian Giverhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3546/Murder%2DShe%2DWrote%2DIndian%2DGiver%2DRewatch
When a mysterious man in native attire rides his horse into Cabot Cove's Founders Day celebration and throws a spear at the mayor's podium, there's a lot of talk in the town. But when George Longbow then comes to the urgent town hall meeting and claims to <em>own</em> the town as the 11th direct descendant of the Algonquin chief Manitoka and heir to a historic land grant, the locals get riled and threats are made. The next day, the body of a local contractor is found with the antique Algonquin lance driven through his chest, everyone looks at George as the most likely suspect, but something doesn't sit right with Jessica Fletcher.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3546Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:11:24 -0800filthy light thiefPodcast: This American Life: #554: Not It!http://fanfare.metafilter.com/3057/This%2DAmerican%2DLife%2D554%2DNot%2DIt
Stories of people, cities, and commonwealths touching their noses and proclaiming "not it!" Including the story of how one city used a rocking chair to take retribution against a late night TV show host, and an island that takes people it doesn't want to deal with and ships them away.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3057Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:42:54 -0800latkesMovie: Dear White Peoplehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2726/Dear%2DWhite%2DPeople
A social satire that follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but offensive black-face party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in acutely-not-post-racial America while weaving a universal story of forging one's unique path in the world.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2726Sun, 15 Mar 2015 05:28:54 -0800ellieBOAMovie: In the Heat of the Nighthttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2233/In%2Dthe%2DHeat%2Dof%2Dthe%2DNight
African American police detective Virgil Tibbs is passing through the racist, southern town of Sparta, MIssissippi when he is asked to investigate the murder of a prominent white businessman. <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/dvdextras/2008/02/guess_whos_coming_to_solve_your_murder.html">Slate, Revisiting In the Heat of the Night</a>: To Jewison's credit, there are no scenes in which the story stops dead to make a point about racism. Instead, the themes assert themselves in every crosswise glance and smirk, and in the wary strength with which Tibbs holds himself rigid in the presence of white strangers. That said, some of Jewison's motifs resonated in 1967 in a way that is hard to imagine today. Watch how his camera follows Poitier's hands throughout the movie, lingering every time they touch white skin. As Tibbs works over the victim's corpse, palpating his palms and feet with clinical detachment, we can feel the sense of affront from the white onlookers around the makeshift morgue slab—and we can feel Tibbs feeling it. When Tibbs examines the fingers and forearms of a handcuffed murder suspect (a moment that, for 1967 audiences, might have evoked memories of Poitier chained to Tony Curtis in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/">The Defiant Ones</a> [<a href="http://fanfare.metafilter.com/2196/The-Defiant-Ones">previously</a>]), we can intuit the white man's bred-in-the-bone humiliation giving way to self-interest as he realizes that Tibbs might help him.<br>
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<a href="http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1101-Spring-2011/Shot-to-Remember-Norman-Jewison.aspx">Directors Guild of America, The Slap Heard Round the World</a>: Jewison had promised a justifiably concerned Poitier that they wouldn’t actually shoot in the South. But to capture the slap scene, and the cotton plantation that surrounded it, Jewison persuaded Poitier to go to Dyersburg, Tenn., for three days. To be on the safe side, the star kept a gun under his pillow at the Holiday Inn. “Feelings were that high,” recalls Jewison. “This was not a period film. It was taking place in the present time.”<br>
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<a href="http://news.moviefone.com/2012/08/07/in-the-heat-of-the-night-movie-trivia/">"In the Heat of the Night:" 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Sidney Poitier Classic</a>.<br>
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<a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/in-the-heat-of-the-night-tv-series/">Showtime to make new "In the Heat of the Night" series</a>.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHvdwIS1tM">"The slap" scene</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0hytuh6GIk">"They call me MISTER TIBBS!" scene</a>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2233Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:58:25 -0800MoonOrbMovie: Lone Starhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2223/Lone%2DStar
In the Texas border town of Frontera, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) digs up the past when he finds an old skull in the desert. As he traces the murder of Sheriff Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson) 40 years earlier, Deeds' investigation points toward his late father, the much-loved Deputy Buddy Deeds. Ignoring warnings not to delve any deeper, Sam rekindles a romance with his high school sweetheart while bringing up old tensions in the town and exposing secrets long put to rest. <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lone-star-1996">Roger Ebert Review:</a> "Lone Star” is a great American movie, one of the few to seriously try to regard with open eyes the way we live now. Set in a town that until very recently was rigidly segregated, it shows how Chicanos, blacks, whites and Indians shared a common history, and how they knew one another and dealt with one another in ways that were off the official map.<br>
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<a href="http://www.mediacircus.net/lonestar.html">Anthony Leong, Demystifying Lone Star</a>: A continuum is also established between the law and justice. Sam starts off at the beginning of "Lone Star" unable to differentiate between the two, which he believes are one and the same. However, as he delves further into the history of Rio County, he finds that the two are on opposite ends of a spectrum, and that everyone he knows is somewhere in between the two.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd8AHbp2c4">Trailer</a>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2223Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:58:15 -0800MoonOrbMovie: The Defiant Oneshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2196/The%2DDefiant%2DOnes
Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. <a href="https://whoiscliff.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/best-director-final-50-stanley-kramer-the-defiant-ones/">The strongest statement in The Defiant Ones is made in the title sequence, when the screenwriters’ credit comes on the screen. The credits play over a scene of the prison van driving its charges through the stormy night. The guards at the front of the van are played by the movie’s writers, Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas. The latter of the two, blacklisted at the time, is credited as “Nedrick Young” for his work on the Oscar-winning original screenplay, and Kramer places both credits on the screen underneath the images of the two men in silent rebuke of the political oppression of the day</a>.<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE0D61430E73BBC4D51DFBF668383649EDE">NY Times Review</a>. <br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbz2JtLSiU4">John Landis commentary on Trailers from Hell</a>.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2196Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:44:53 -0800MoonOrbPodcast: NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast: Selma and the Use of Dramatic License in Historical Dramashttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2071/NPR%2DPop%2DCulture%2DHappy%2DHour%2DPodcast%2DSelma%2Dand%2Dthe%2DUse%2Dof%2DDramatic%2DLicense%2Din%2DHistorical%2DDramas
This week on Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR Monkey See's Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon are joined by NPR Code Switch's Gene Demby to discuss the Civil Rights Era film Selma. They'll discuss the direction by Ava DuVernay, the Oprah of it all, and how well it brings Martin Luther King, Jr. to life. Then they'll discuss other historical dramas and the advantages and limitations of dramatic license. All that plus What's Making Us Happy this week.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2071Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:00:27 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesomePodcast: Reply All: #9 The Writing On The Wallhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/1989/Reply%2DAll%2D9%2DThe%2DWriting%2DOn%2DThe%2DWall
Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.1989Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:08:26 -0800mathowieMovie: Selmahttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/1918/Selma
Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-xewJ-1H0">Trailer</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.selmamovie.com/">Official site</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan-history/2015/01/08/viola-liuzzo-detroit-selma-alabama-movie-march-montgomery/21483659/">"Selma" recalls Detroit civil rights martyr</a>.<br>
<a href="http://time.com/3658593/selma-lbj-history/">Why you should care that Selma gets LBJ wrong</a>. <br>
<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/front-page-history-teaching-about-selma-using-original-times-reporting/?_r=0">Teaching about Selma using original NYT reporting</a>.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.1918Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:00:11 -0800MoonOrbSilicon Valley: Signaling Riskhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/36/Silicon%2DValley%2DSignaling%2DRisk
The pursuit of a new logo takes precedence. A great episode all around as the gang tries to get a new logo, works on becoming more of a company, and eventually gets a shocking result on their garage.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.36Thu, 08 May 2014 13:41:33 -0800mathowie